Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nitze was due to fly to Santa Barbara and receive new negotiating instructions from Reagan. That was the day the world learned that the Soviets had downed a Korean Air Lines 747 over the Sea of Japan. Soviet-American relations, which had shown some tentative signs of a warming trend, turned frigid. Still, the West Europeans were anxious for movement in Geneva. In a U.N. speech that reiterated U.S. condemnation of the Soviets for shooting down the airliner, Reagan unveiled the new State Department proposal...
Personal income, a key gauge of buying power, jumped ahead by 1.2% in October, the biggest surge in more than two years. At the same time, the Consumer Price Index rose only .4% during the month, continuing a trend of moderate increases that this year have pushed the rate of inflation ahead only about 4%. Says Consumer Expert Fabian Linden of the Conference Board, a business re-search group: "All the pieces are in place for a lively Christmas season...
...Education. That compares with more than $116 billion in government support in the last school year. The money is coming from energetic, well-heeled PTAs, from local education foundations and from corporate donors. Although the schools welcome this new source of needed revenue, some educators wonder if the trend will reinforce the imbalance between affluent and poor districts...
...granting of an exclusive license to Biogen follows a University trend in biotechnology, despite written and public statements by officials that the University prefers to grant non-exclusive licenses to any company that wants to develop a given invention...
...generous and uncompromising: there is no time limit for earning a degree and, for needier students, there is financial help; but the "Adas" (their campus nickname) must attend the same classes as regular four-year students, which means no snap courses and no credits for "life experience," a popular trend in adult education...